My story

[Pazzmon 64]

After hearing about this game a couple of months ago, (have no idea how I stumbled across it), I got intrigued and began watching videos of Frankie, LeftyOX and others, I found it hilarious, (Especially the capturing of a woman and luring her as bate to some bandits). After a while, I decided to buy it, knowing that I had to change my Macbook Pro and dual boot it, I managed to actually ruin my hardrive when partitioning it, however, I made so much effort to fix it, just to play DayZ, even though my Macbook Pro 13.3" has a terrible graphics card, it's definitely not making a hindrance on my excitement and joy levels while I play this game.

 

Well, after playing it for about twenty hours.. I've spawned again many times...probably died in all the ways possible..even suicide off a factory! But, I've had this one game now, I've been alive now for about four hours, I've managed to go from Svetlojarsk... following the coast all the way down to Solnichniy, Kamyshovo, back up to Tulga, Msta, Berezino, Khelm, back to Svetlojarsk, got lost on the way to the airfield, and ended up in Olsha, which actually had some life saving loot, gained some pain killers and a can of beer which got rid of my very soon to be broken leg and mild food poisoning (who knew alcohol was good for a sore tummy!) 

 

Managed to find my way to the airfield, low behold, I managed to ransack the whole place, with my new fire axe that I found in Svetlojarsk hospital, I was so happy, my first decent weapon! In the airfield, I also found a mountain backpack, which is my first backpack as well, along with my first gun as well and also my first medical kit! I was so happy, I feel like I'm going to mount everest! 

 

However, I need one more thing...a wooden f***ing stick? Just so I can fix my extremely painful leg...

 

Possible Bug: In brown (camo?) pants.. (six slots), you can't put any items in the first slot (not too sure on item condition though so that could effect it).

 

Overall, I'd say this game is about as addictive as football manager for me... something that passes the time so quickly you don't realise it's taken you about half an hour to go from Svetlojarsk to Kambiwobo! Definitely can't wait for the new survival ideas to be implemented, vehicles need to stay out of this game for a while, I think something has to be done about loot, it's taking me 20 hours to find any decent sort of survival gear which is why I've lasted more than three hours for once, however, i'm not complaining too much as I've had to be more rational with anything I find and extra cautious and even more expeditious! 

 

So happy I spent the £19.99 on getting this game, despite being bare minimum of what it could be, it's an amazing start to a game, no doubt many game awards will be broken!

 

Possibly add a few Runescape-esque sort of survival.. players able to chop down trees with axe... make fires with logs and firelighters or rags, matches and logs/twigs, being able to make food on fires with pots, and have different recipes, able to set traps up to capture animals, skin with kitchen knife or possible swiss army knife, etc and cook on the fire. The possibilities are endless, as long as they keep it realistic and logical in the way things need to be made/done/work etc then it will be amazing. 

 

:)

 

 

[Geckofrog7 1168]

Glad you're enjoying the game.

Yeah...why you can't find a stick in...you know..the forest, is beyond me, but I have a feeling they'll make them harvestable from trees in a later update.

If you're having trouble finding loot, try asking around. There's always certain sweet spots scattered around that continually give you good gear. (The piano houses for example.) 

Fires, camping, hunting, etc is coming very soon, it's on the dev's todo list. Can't wait! :lol:

Edited April 2, 2014 by Geckofrog7

[odin_lowe 3686]

After hearing about this game a couple of months ago, (have no idea how I stumbled across it), I got intrigued and began watching videos of Frankie, LeftyOX and others, I found it hilarious, (Especially the capturing of a woman and luring her as bate to some bandits). After a while, I decided to buy it, knowing that I had to change my Macbook Pro and dual boot it, I managed to actually ruin my hardrive when partitioning it, however, I made so much effort to fix it, just to play DayZ, even though my Macbook Pro 13.3" has a terrible graphics card, it's definitely not making a hindrance on my excitement and joy levels while I play this game.

 

Well, after playing it for about twenty hours.. I've spawned again many times...probably died in all the ways possible..even suicide off a factory! But, I've had this one game now, I've been alive now for about four hours, I've managed to go from Svetlojarsk... following the coast all the way down to Solnichniy, Kamyshovo, back up to Tulga, Msta, Berezino, Khelm, back to Svetlojarsk, got lost on the way to the airfield, and ended up in Olsha, which actually had some life saving loot, gained some pain killers and a can of beer which got rid of my very soon to be broken leg and mild food poisoning (who knew alcohol was good for a sore tummy!) 

 

Managed to find my way to the airfield, low behold, I managed to ransack the whole place, with my new fire axe that I found in Svetlojarsk hospital, I was so happy, my first decent weapon! In the airfield, I also found a mountain backpack, which is my first backpack as well, along with my first gun as well and also my first medical kit! I was so happy, I feel like I'm going to mount everest! 

 

However, I need one more thing...a wooden f***ing stick? Just so I can fix my extremely painful leg...

 

Possible Bug: In brown (camo?) pants.. (six slots), you can't put any items in the first slot (not too sure on item condition though so that could effect it).

 

Overall, I'd say this game is about as addictive as football manager for me... something that passes the time so quickly you don't realise it's taken you about half an hour to go from Svetlojarsk to Kambiwobo! Definitely can't wait for the new survival ideas to be implemented, vehicles need to stay out of this game for a while, I think something has to be done about loot, it's taking me 20 hours to find any decent sort of survival gear which is why I've lasted more than three hours for once, however, i'm not complaining too much as I've had to be more rational with anything I find and extra cautious and even more expeditious! 

 

So happy I spent the £19.99 on getting this game, despite being bare minimum of what it could be, it's an amazing start to a game, no doubt many game awards will be broken!

 

Possibly add a few Runescape-esque sort of survival.. players able to chop down trees with axe... make fires with logs and firelighters or rags, matches and logs/twigs, being able to make food on fires with pots, and have different recipes, able to set traps up to capture animals, skin with kitchen knife or possible swiss army knife, etc and cook on the fire. The possibilities are endless, as long as they keep it realistic and logical in the way things need to be made/done/work etc then it will be amazing. 

 

:)

 

:thumbsup:

 

Alright, first the two slots in your pants you couldn't access was because of a known bug: When you put items from your clothes (cargo pants, wool coat, assault vest, etc.) to a container (yellow protector case, medical kit) the space where the item was becomes unavailable for some reason. It can also occur when you eat a can of food while holding in your hands and then throwing it on the ground when it reaches 0%. The space where the food item was becomes unavailable. Not always though, but 90% of times. When you log back the next time you play, you can see the food items at 0% in those spaces.

 

Second, for wooden sticks, they usually are found in industrial areas (garages, factories, the Refy shipwreck, etc.) and the pub (two story building that has a restaurant/pub on the right section of it. Wooden sticks combined with rags makes you a splint to be used when you get a broken limb. Same use as the morphine, but takes 3 inventory slots instead of 1, and sticks are somewhat rare to find. Morphine spawns in hospitals, of course, but I find lots at the blue medical clinics they added in Svetlojarsk first, and recently all over the map.

 

Edited April 2, 2014 by Odin Lowe

[Geckofrog7 1168]

Oooh, I thought I was just having internet problems, like I always do..thx, that explains a lot. :lol:

[thelonewarrior 886]

As for not being able to find loot, remember those places you think are good (airfields act) are most likely looted as soon as the server restarts (which causes loot to respawn)

So people won't leave much for you, all those places you mentioned are pretty common loot runs for many players

If it's loot you want, you'll need to head inland until you know when and where to look

Police stations and military bases are getting looted very quickly, so in many cases you won't find much there

Also a lot of buildings don't spawn loot even though you can go into them

[Pazzmon 64]

So, my eight hour journey finally ended, after going back to the airfield to stock up, I left for the hills in search of a barn house to find a wooden stick, I found a railway line and used that all the way down to somewhere I've never been before, actually think I was out of the map! Nevertheless, I managed to find a barn, but just outside was a little wooden holder, in which a zombie was stuck in, after having a laggy server and spending about thirty seconds trying to jump a fence, the zombie attacked me and put me unconscious with one hit, was so furious that my exciting journey came to an abrupt end in which I had no control over thanks to an invisible zombie. 

 

:(

[Stixx (DayZ) 48]

If you have an empty slot that cant be used most likely its what Odin said. I found usually if you take off the pants or coat with unusable slot...drop them on the ground...wait a second or two..then rewear..it fixes that unusable spot.